TO 
The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
EVERLASTING FLOWERS FOR WINTER BOUQUETS 
The popularity of Everlasting 
Flowers has been wonderfully on 
the increase during the past few 
years, and not without reason, for 
their culture is very easy and 
simple, and their (lowers, if carefully 
gathered, dried, and preserved, will 
retain their beauty for years. Their 
bright and pleasing colours will be 
found of great service in the deco- 
ration of the Church or the home, 
in Winter, when other flowers are 
scarce. Many of the light varieties 
may be dyed of various brilliant 
colours; and, made up into bouquets 
with some of the Ornamental Grasses, 
are truly charming. Everlasting 
Flowers for preserving should be cut 
just as the blossoms are beginning 
From Mr. J. RICHARDSON, Knowsley Village 
Fib. 22ml. 
'• Your Flower Seeds last year produced excel- 
lent results. 1 bad a grand show, indeed, I cannot speak 
too highly of their excellence." 
Fiom Mr. O H. DANCER, Portage la Praiiie. 
Feb. 1st. 
" We had great success with your Flower 8eeclf? 
again last year, taking nine First Prizes at our Local 
Shows." 
to expand, or when they are not 
more than half open, and tied in 
hunches and hung up in a cool 
place . to dry, with the flowers 
downwards. Small bunches are pre- 
ferable for drying, as large bunches 
are apt to mould and spoil. 
The Helichrysums arc perhaps 
the most useful, and produce a great 
variety of brilliant and beautiful 
colours. Rhodanthe maculata and 
Rhodanthe maculata alba are two 
charming and elegant varieties of 
fine dwarf habit. Rhodanthe maculata 
Jl pi. is a fine now double-flowered 
variety of great merit. Tho Acro- 
cliniums and Xerunthemums are also 
exceedingly useful, both for garden 
decoration or dried flowers. 
From Mir. T. PAIN, Old Bronipton. 
Fob. 1st. 
■'I have grown your Seeds for years post, and 
■uccessfully exhibited and taken many Prizes at several 
Local Shows ns an Amateur. ’ 
From Mr. W. HODGE. Church ICud, Burton. 
Jan. 27th. 
"The Flower SeedB I have received from 
you for the hut three juars have glveu tho greatest 
satisfaction." 
No. 
Name. 
1053 Acroclinium roseum ... 
1054 „ roseum, double 
1055 „ album ... 
105G ‘Ammobium alatum grandiflorum 
1057 *Catananche bicolor ... 
1058 * „ coerulea 
1059 Gnaphalium foetidum 
1060 „ leontopodium (Edelweis) 
1061 „ orientale fl. pi. 
1"62 Gomphrena globosa nana compae. 
1063 „ „ alba 
1064 „ „ choice mixed 
1065 Helichrysum, an assortment of 
beautiful vars. 2s. 6d. 
1066 „ scarlet 
1067 „ yellow 
1068 „ purple 
1069 „ rose 
1070 „ white 
1071 „ finest mixed 
1072 „ minimum album 
1073 „ „ luteum 
1074 „ „ roseum 
1075 „ „ rubrum 
1076 „ „ mixed 
1077 Helipterum anthemoides 
1078 „ corymbiflora ... 
1079 „ Sandfordi 
1080 Rhodanthe atrosanguinea 
1081 „ maculata 
1082 „ „ alba ... 
1083 „ „ fl. pi. ... 
1084 „ „ mixed 
1085 „ Manglesi fl. pi. 
1086 Statice Bonduelli 
1087 „ spicata . . 
1088 „ caudidissima 
1089 „ Suworowi 
1090 Waitzia aurea grandiflora 
1091 Xerantbemum annuum superbis- 
simum fl. pi. 
1092 „ „ „ album fl. pi. 
1093 „ annuum purpureum „ 
1094 „ „ album „ 
1095 „ „ roseum 
12 
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Dur. 
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Colour. 
Months o 
Flowering 
U -*i 
Observations. 
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2 
rose 
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3 
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white 
6 
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II 
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3 
Winged Sandjlower. Pretty, 
white & blue 
Jy to Oc, 
3 
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it 
blue 
3 
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yellow 
Jy to Sp 
3 
^ Useful Everlastings. G. leontopodium 
lip 
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white 
JJ 
■6 
£ is a beautiful silvery white alpine 
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yellow 
6 
' variety of dwarf growth. 
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violet red 
Ju to Sp 
6 
^ Globe Amaranth. Very pretty for the 
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white 
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2 
various 
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) and Autumn. 
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2i 
scarlet 
Jy to Oc 
3 
A brilliant and splendid class of showy 
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yellow 
3 
annuals that remain iu bloom for a 
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purple 
3 
long period. Exceedingly useful to 
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rose 
3 
gather for vases, Ac., for Winter 
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white 
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3 
J* decoration. The colours vary from 
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various 
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dark crimson or purple to orange- 
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white 
4 
scarlet and yellow, to pure white, 
tt 
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yellow 
4 
and delicate rose, and are all very 
handsome {see illustration). 
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dark red 
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white 
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> Beautiful dwarf-growiug varieties. 
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yellow 
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dark red 
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6 
\ A charming group. It. maculata fl. pi. 
ft 
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rose & crim. 
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is a fine new variety, with handsome 
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silvery white 
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rose-coloured double flowers, whilst 
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It. maculata alba is probably the 
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most beautiful of all white ever- 
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rose 
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yellow 
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pink 
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r- V ery useful and showy varieties. 
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rose 
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orange 
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Compact-growing, pretty annual. 
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| Very handsome and free-flowering 
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purple 
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i- everlastiugs. Excellent for garden 
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Thirty-six varieties, one packet of each, post free, 6s. 8d. ; 24 ditto, 5s. ; 12 ditto, 2s. 6d. 
